apt problems (?)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:22:34AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libxv1_4.3.0-7_i386.deb

NO!!!

dpkg -r --force-depends xlibs
apt-get -f install

That way you aren't doing something bad, instead you just "temporarily"
override a dependancy check to allow replacing a package, and then
apt-get puts back the new version of both packages.  force overwrite is
almost always a very bad idea since then two packages own the same file
and messy problems can occour.

Forced dependancy overrides are simple for dpkg/apt to fix.  Forced
overwrites it has no clue about solving.

> From there you should be able to go back to using apt.

Lennart Sorensen
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